Mr. Hamid Arabzadeh has been the Chairman and CEO of RANOVUS, www.ranovus.com, a leading technology provider of photonic interconnect solutions for AI/ML workloads, since its inception in 2012. Ranovus is headquartered in Kanata, Ontario, Canada with European R&D center in Nuremberg, Germany, and business development presence in Sunnyvale CA USA. Prior to RANOVUS, Mr. Arabzadeh was the […]
Alun Hardman is Senior Lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan University, as well as a Fellow of the Cardiff Metropolitan University – Global Academy. His research is in the ethics and socio-political philosophy of sport – particularly issues of equality, diversity and inclusion, international affairs, and sporting migration. He is the co-editor of The Ethics of Sport
Madjid Soltani is an Associate Professor at K. N. Toosi University of Technology and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo. He received his Ph.D from the University of Waterloo and his Post-Doctoral Fellowship from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Soltani has collaborated actively with researchers in several disciplines of cancer biology, microfluidics, and artificial intelligence
Dr. Al Jaber is researching issues concerning linkages between technology-enhanced regional economic corridors and peacebuilding strategies.
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Abby Goodrum is Professor and founder of the User Experience Design degree program at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Brantford campus where she teach courses in User-Centered Design, Information Architecture, and Research Methods. Before this, she was the Vice President for Research at Wilfrid Laurier University. Prior to her appointment at Laurier, she held the Rogers Research
Evren Altinkas received postgraduate degrees from King’s College London in 2000 and from Dokuz Eylul University in 2003. He obtained his doctoral degree from Dokuz Eylul University in 2011 based on his dissertation comparing the development of the concept of intellectuals in Europe and in Ottoman State/Turkey. Since July 2018, Altinkas is affiliated with the
Alan Sovran is a policy and programs expert with diverse experience contributing to research, analyses, and interventions related to a variety of policy areas. This work includes preparing and delivering remarks on proposed digital media tariffs at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, participating in multi-disciplinary summits examining policy solutions to microplastics pollution in the
Dr. Peter Johnson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo. His research seeks to understand how governments, citizens, and private companies share information through geospatial technology, including open data, the Geoweb, social media, mobile devices, and the process of crowdsourcing. Recent projects have focused on
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Azam Asilian Bidgoli is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Science at Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Prior to her current position at WLU, she held a similar role as an Assistant Professor at Laurentian University. Additionally, she worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Canada, where she
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Lee Tiedrich is a widely recognized leader in artificial intelligence, data, and emerging technologies. She is a member of both the OECD and Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) AI expert groups and co-chairs both the GPAI Responsible AI Strategy for the Environment (RAISE) committee and the GPAI Intellectual Property Advisory Committee. With a degree in
Prof. Dr. Antonietta Elia, 2022 Finalist to the Pro Human Rights Prize, International Category (Madrid, Spain); 2021 Internationally Nominee to the Global Leadership Prize, Elliasson Tallberg Foundation; 2020 North South Prize of the Council of Europe as Member of the Mediterranean Network of Experts on Climate Change (MedECC); 2019 Former Candidate to the Italian Seat
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